Kevin Hannaway pleads not guilty to assisting IRA

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Kevin Hannaway is pleading not guilty to assisting an unlawful organisation at the Special Criminal Court, reported on 6 March 2018.

The charge relates to alleged assistance with interviewing people involved in IRA-organised criminal activities at Riverwood Park, Castleknock, Dublin, on 7 and 8 August 2015.

Prosecutors are relying on recordings from surveillance devices placed in the private house, while the trial continues before Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy, sitting with two judges.